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Large lot of Venetian glass trade beads, multiple colors and designs.

Currency:USD Category:Artifacts / Shipwreck Artifacts Start Price:100.00 USD Estimated At:200.00 - 300.00 USD
Large lot of Venetian glass trade beads, multiple colors and designs.
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Large lot of Venetian glass trade beads, multiple colors and designs. 245 grams total, each about 1/2" to 1" long. The inbound early wrecks in the Caribbean (as well as some land sites) tend to be littered with these beads, which were generally traded to the natives and therefore were a sort of money, this batch consisting of cylinders of blue, green and red, some striped like candy, whose method of manufacture is (and was) similar. From an unidentified 1500s-1600s wreck off Santo Domingo, with Global Marine Exploration photo-certificate. Recovered from: Unidentified 1500s-1600s wrecks off Santo Domingo